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Protecting America's Water

Water is the foundation for healthy communities & strong economies.

Since our founding during the campaign to pass the landmark Clean Water Act in 1972, Clean Water Action has worked to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking and people power to the table.

Restoring the Clean Water Act: A new proposal by the Obama Administration will return Clean Water Act safeguards to most streams and wetlands and protect the drinking water for more than 117 million people. Clean Water Action and our members have been fighting to restore these protections for nearly 12 years. Winning this restoration is a priority in 2014. We will fight misinformation by polluters and their allies in Congress and make sure the Administration finalizes this rule as soon as possible. Learn more

Putting Drinking Water First: The Safe Drinking Water Act turns 40 in 2014. People think that the Safe Drinking Water Act and other laws protect
drinking water sources from most contamination threats, when in fact
there are few such protections at present. Clean Water Action is
committed to changing this.

“Putting Drinking Water First” means stopping threats to drinking water
where they start. Today, Public Water Systems such as the one
overwhelmed by the Freedom Industries spill in West Virginia must often act as waste
disposal and pollution control systems of last resort for all kinds of
contamination, not just from chemical storage facilities. Other laws such as the Clean Water Act can and should be
used more effectively to eliminate upstream threats and reduce pollution
before it impacts drinking water sources. Learn more here and here